Here is a simple Valentine's Day recipe you can make at
school or with your picky eaters at home! This delicious and healthy dish will
warm their tummies and their hearts!
Strawberry Heart Pancakes...from
scratch!
You will need:
1 ½ cups of whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
¼ teaspoon of baking soda
¼ teaspoon of ...

During
the month of December we have been celebrating the holidays of Hanukkah,
Christmas and Kwanzaa at our preschool. The holiday of Kwanzaa, like any holiday,
embraces certain symbols that embody the message and purpose of the holiday.
Here you can find a complete
description
of these symbols, one of which is corn. I decided to use ...

Happy December everyone -- one of my most favorite
months of the year! Time with family and friends, gift-giving and baking
holiday treats fill our days and nights with fun!
Today's recipe is one I would like to share that
really represents what the holidays are all about! My 4-year-old nephew made
this yummy treat at home with his ...

Before writing today's recipe post, I decided to take a
quick glance back at my November blog entries from the past three years. In
doing so I realized that I have not written many recipes for turkey time!
This year at our preschool, we are preparing a pint-sized
turkey day feast right before our Thanksgiving holiday break. We have ...

Halloween is almost here! Have you
been busy making all things pumpkin? Well here is a yummy recipe that can serve
as the perfect use for left-over pumpkin puree and can be easily made in a
classroom lesson setting!
Ingredients
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 ...

Earlier this past week, one of the teachers I work with,
Jamie Zarmanian, shared with our preschool classes this fabulous recipe for
pumpkin spice Play-Doh. The entire classroom smelled like cinnamon cookies! The
texture was perfect - soft, but not sticky and children really seemed to enjoy
using a different type of Play-Doh to roll, ...

This is the last week of my Piccolini Perfecto Pasta
creations. Please take a look at my previous two recipe posts for ideas on how
to create a delicious rainbow of flavors and nutrients using Barilla's
Piccolini vegetable pastas. The third and final recipe includes the Mini
Rotelle (aka mini wagon wheels), wonderfully made with spinach ...

Last
week I introduced my latest pasta passion--Barilla's Minature Piccolini veggie
pastas! I also shared
one of my own creations using the Mini Pipe Pasta. This week, I have a new
recipe using different vegetables and a different sauce. These pasta dishes are
a great way to incorporate vegetables into your picky eater's diet! ...

This week I would like to share my most recent love affair
with food for little ones: Barilla's Piccolini Pasta with Veggies!
Each box of pasta ''contains 25 percent pureed fresh in-season
vegetables.'' There are three different types that Barilla currently makes,
shown below:
From top to bottom: Mini pipes made with carrots and ...

If you have been reading this blog since its inception three
years ago (the first post was published October
1, 2008) then you will know that when I began writing my weekly posts, I
was working in a home-based birth to 3 program.
It was that experience that prompted me to contact ADVANCE
with the idea to create a speech and language therapy ...